Notes on Writing

“Why do I write?
To investigate the mystery of existence.  To tolerate myself.  To get closer to everything that is outside of me”. 
Jhumpa  Lahiri   - In Other Words

“No one has ever died of writing in her notebook what is hidden or dangerous.  You might cry - or laugh - but not die”.
Natalie Goldberg  - Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir

“So then, the poet really is the thief of fire”.
Arthur Rimbaud

“One tries to go deep, to speak to the secret self we all have”.
Kathrine Mansfield

“Certainly for all artists of all stripes, the unknown, the idea or the form or the tale that has not yet arrived, is what must be found.  It is the job of the artists to open doors and invite prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar: its where the work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own”.

- Rebecca Solnit  A field Guide to Getting Lost